Nurse denied ambulance requests before migrant child died in U.S. custody, officials find
CBSN
A nurse denied several requests to take a sick eight-year-old migrant girl to the hospital the same day the child died in U.S. Border Patrol custody in Texas earlier this month, federal investigators said Thursday.
Anadith Tanay Reyes Alvarez, who suffered from sickle cell anemia and heart disease, died on May 17 after she and her family spent over a week in Border Patrol custody, despite agency rules instructing agents to hold detainees for no longer than three days.
While the death is still being investigated by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Border Patrol's umbrella agency, preliminary findings have raised serious questions about why the family was held for so long, and why Reyes Alvarez was not transferred to a hospital after multiple instances in which she and her mother sought medical attention.
